Students need to work together to identify the following literary components of their chosen story:
Plot: Setting: Theme: Characters:
Protagonist:
Angagonist:
Supporting roles:
Conflict: Foreshadowing: introduction of specific words or images that anticipate later events Irony: Metaphor: an image used to make concrete an abstract idea--doesn't use like or similar to Ex: My love is a Grand Canyon of longing. Motivation: eternal and internal forces that cause characters to perform specific acts Narrator:
omniscient:
limited omniscient: knows the thoughts and feelings of certain characters
First-person: uses “I” to tell the story, and may be a character
Unreliable:
Resolution: the “falling action” of a story in which the conflict has been settled
Literary Vocabulary Link I have provided a few definitions to help guide students in the right direction. Please use the following link to aid in filling in the definitions as well as applying the terms to your story. Literary Terms
Plot:
Setting:
Theme:
Characters:
- Protagonist:
- Angagonist:
- Supporting roles:
Conflict:Foreshadowing: introduction of specific words or images that anticipate later events
Irony:
Metaphor: an image used to make concrete an abstract idea--doesn't use like or similar to Ex: My love is a Grand Canyon of longing.
Motivation: eternal and internal forces that cause characters to perform specific acts
Narrator:
- omniscient:
- limited omniscient: knows the thoughts and feelings of certain characters
- First-person: uses “I” to tell the story, and may be a character
- Unreliable:
Resolution: the “falling action” of a story in which the conflict has been settledLiterary Vocabulary Link
I have provided a few definitions to help guide students in the right direction. Please use the following link to aid in filling in the definitions as well as applying the terms to your story.
Literary Terms